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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Uranus
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 Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 3:04 am Post subject: Violence Against Women Rampant in Asia |
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I had several titles for this post....
Beating women is OK because its multicultural
Whats really behind Asian women and Western men marriage - Escape
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 25, 2005
Filed at 6:17 a.m. ET
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Violence and systematic discrimination against women was rampant in Asia last year, ranging from acid attacks for unpaid dowries in Bangladesh to forced abortion in China, rape by soldiers in Nepal and domestic beatings in Australia, Amnesty International said.
The London-based group's annual assessment of the state of human rights in the world reported abuses against women from almost every country in Asia in its report released Wednesday.
The largest section on women's rights was devoted to their plight in Afghanistan, where the group said the ouster of the conservative, Islamic Taliban regime in 2001 by U.S.-led forces did little to bring relief to women.
While women were a major focus of the Asian report, the group highlighted abuses ranging from summary executions in Nepal to restrictions on criminal defendants' choices of attorneys in Australia under new anti-terrorism laws.
Amnesty reported moderate improvements in the protection of rights in some countries, but the list of places where rights deteriorated was much longer.
Across Afghanistan, but particularly in the western Herat region, Amnesty reported that hundreds of women had set fire to themselves to escape violence in the home or forced marriage.
''Fear of abductions by armed groups forced women to restrict their movements outside the home,'' Amnesty said. Even within families, ''extreme restrictions'' on women's behavior and high levels of violence persisted, it said.
Westernized Australia did not escape the blight either.
In October, a U.N.-coordinated survey revealed that 36 percent of Australian women had experienced violence in a relationship. It was also reported that domestic violence was the leading cause of premature death and ill-health in women aged 15 to 44, Amnesty said.
In Nepal, rape by members of the security forces was frequently reported and violence against women from members of their family was also widespread.
Violence against women took an especially brutal form in Bangladesh, where at least 153 women were attacked with acid between January and October 2004. Reasons for most attacks were reportedly disputes between families on payment of dowry or refusal by women to marry or provide sex, Amnesty said.
China fared badly too, where serious violations against women and girls continued to be reported as a result of the enforcement of the family planning policy, including forced abortions and sterilizations, Amnesty said.
Amnesty highlighted the case of Mao Hengfeng, who was sent to a labor camp for 18 months for persistently petitioning the authorities over a forced abortion 15 years earlier when she became pregnant in violation of China's family planning policy.
Selective abortion of female fetuses remained common although illegal, resulting in a growing gap in the boy-girl birth ratio, Amnesty said.
The report said India still lacks comprehensive legislation addressing domestic violence and that the government failed to submit overdue periodic reports to the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
In Pakistan, ''honor crimes'' against women -- punishments meted out ostensibly for sullying a family's reputation -- took bizarre forms with a tribal council directing in June that a 7-year-old girl, Mouti, be killed for an alleged illicit relation with an 8-year old boy.
Her father refused to accept the verdict and authorities provided the girl protection.
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 5:06 am Post subject: |
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| Asia is a pretty big place - I wouldn't draw conclusions based on my experience in one country. My guess is that it's 'common' almost everywhere and always has been. The difference is that in some countries most guys have devoped the attitude that it's a shit thing to do and wife-beaters should get the crap beat out of them in turn. Korea is not one such place. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 5:20 am Post subject: |
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First question before I forget it: Have geographers taken away Australia's continenthood? Demoted it, so to speak.
Second:
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Beating women is OK because its multicultural
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Where does this crack come from? It's progressives who changed the attitude in the West about the treatment of women. It's conservatives who resisted guaranteeing women their rights. |
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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Uranus
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| Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, good job on that and unfortunately you've abandoned tham as well. You don't admit to it but you have adpoted third world cultures and championed them as flawless via cultural realtivism while those cultures embrace the very same "regressivenes" that you seek to eradicate. Everything in due time? Do you really think you have have the resouirces to fix Asia, Africa, South America and The Middle East? You look way over-exteneded. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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| dulouz wrote: |
| Yes, good job on that and unfortunately you've abandoned tham as well. You don't admit to it but you have adpoted third world cultures and championed them as flawless via cultural realtivism while those cultures embrace the very same "regressivenes" that you seek to eradicate. Everything in due time? Do you really think you have have the resouirces to fix Asia, Africa, South America and The Middle East? You look way over-exteneded. |
Who is you? Is you Yata boy? Or is you that homogenous all-of-one-mind left of which you are so fond. Is it Yata boy or the homogenous left that is over-exteneded? Who claimed to have the resources to fix Asia, Africa, South America and The Middle East?
Please elaborate!
Also, I don't accept women being treated as second rate anywhere and never have. Does this mean I can no longer be 'on the left?' Where shall I go? |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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I came across this sentence in the book "Eleanor of Aquitaine" by Alison Weir (1999). It seemed to fit the discussion.
(Eleanor lived in the 1100's)
"Wife-beating was common, although the Church did at this time attempt to restrict the length of the rod that a husband might use."
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dulouz wrote:
Yes, good job on that and unfortunately you've abandoned tham as well. You don't admit to it but you have adpoted third world cultures and championed them as flawless via cultural realtivism while those cultures embrace the very same "regressivenes" that you seek to eradicate. Everything in due time? Do you really think you have have the resouirces to fix Asia, Africa, South America and The Middle East? You look way over-exteneded.
Who is you? Is you Yata boy? Or is you that homogenous all-of-one-mind left of which you are so fond. Is it Yata boy or the homogenous left that is over-exteneded? Who claimed to have the resources to fix Asia, Africa, South America and The Middle East?
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Big_Bird,
You have to be patient with dulouz. He has accepted the paranoid views of the Radical Right hook, line and sinker. He then projects his style of thinking onto everyone else. (It's much easier than reading, evaluating and thinking for himself.) |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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Big_Bird,
You have to be patient with dulouz. |
Patience. Yes. I find myself somewhat over-exteneded when I'm trying to make sense of dulouz's fuzzywuzzy communications, and patience is essential.
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| (It's much easier than reading, evaluating and thinking for himself.) |
Thinking. No. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| troll. why you guys respond to this idiot is beyond me. |
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Big_Bird
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| Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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| bucheon bum wrote: |
| troll. why you guys respond to this idiot is beyond me. |
But you just did.  |
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bucheon bum
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